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Blogs > kisstheskies > kiss the skies

kisstheskies 68M
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3/14/2017 5:53 am
PI Day

HAPPY PI DAY
March 14th (3.14) is PI day, and all around the world pi-philes are celebrating one of the most compelling and mysterious constants of Nature. Pi appears in equations describing the orbits of planets, the colors of auroras, the structure of DNA. The value of PI is woven into the fabric of life, the universe and, everything.

Humans have struggled to calculate PI for thousands of years. Divide the circumference of a circle by its diameter; the ratio is PI. Sounds simple, but the devil is in the digits. While the value of PI is finite (a bit more than 3), the decimal number is infinitely long:

3.1415926535897932384626433832795
02884197169399375105820974944592307
81640628620899862803482534211706...and counting
Supercomputers have succeeded in calculating more than 2700 billion digits and they're still crunching!



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